A lot of people are talking about that 7 foot center star from Iran.
But he's very stiff and doesn't have soft hands. He isn't athletic...he's pretty much just a guy who relies on his size to get around.
Australia has a SHITLOAD of guys who could be solid bench players. They could be an upset team like how Puerto Rico was in 2004.
Germany is pretty solid.
For Greece; Vassilis Spanoulis is a former NBAer...is a pure PG, doesn't have the athletic ability, but is a more scoring/defensive version of Calderon.
Dimitris Diamantidis is probably their best scorer.
Marko Tomas from Crotia is an animal, he can score and is just a very good all around player that can play multiple positions.,
China has Yi Jianlian, Yao, Wang Zhi Zhi, Sun Yue, and Chen Jinhua(I think I spelled his name around). Yi, Yao and Yue are already in the NBA, Chen is a 19 lighting quick PG...needs to work on his skills though. China has a very interesting team that really underachievers in my opinion. The talent is there.
All-tournament team:
Jose Calderon
Lebron James
Carmelo Anthony
Luis Scola
Marc Gasol
Top 5 in Scoring:
1. Dirk Nowitzki
2. Yao Ming
3. Olimpio Cipriano
4. Marko Tomas
5. Linas Kleiza
Top 5 in Rebounding:
1. Dwight Howard
2. Yao Ming
3. Dirk Nowitzki
4. Andrew Bogut
5. Hamed Ehadadi
Top 5 in Assists:
1. Chris Paul
2. Jose Calderon
3. Pablo Prigioni
4. Sarunas Jasikevicius
5. Theo Papaloukas
For your squad Germany;
Tim Ohlbrecht is a PROSPECT to look at.
Born in 88, his idol is Dirk and he plays like Dirk.
http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Tim-Ohlbrecht-536/
He hasn't produced yet, but he's ranked 9th internationally in the 88' class...he was number one before.
I noticed Germany has a pretty tall team. There are 5 players 6'11 or above on Germany. Maybe Dirk will run some point on an all 7 footer line up.
Unfortunately for Germany, this is a guard oriented basketball. Germany would be good in the NBA, but not in FIBA.
The courts are smaller, so less space for bigs to create.
If Germany had a guard, maybe Hinrich? I don't know why they didn't try to get him. Maybe because policy if you played for USA already you can't play for another team. But Germany would be SICK with Hinrich.
Hinrich/Hamann/Roller
Greene/Garrett
Wysocki/Schultze
Nowitzki/Jagla
Kaman/Fermerling/Ohlbrecht